Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-09

al MONTANA AATTEKS.
I'll GaIlatin valley has produced q hog viii
II three kidneys.
Location work is being dor on tn
% Philipeburg and Drummond railroad.
i'll T. J. Demers, OF Frenchtown, will furnish
,e the Government 80, 600 pounds of -four a
Fort Missoula.
Ahumane justice of the peace refused t.
unite in wedlock a 13-year-oh girl to 8
brute OF q man in Billings
The Medicine Hat Times states that thu
= Rocky Mountain telegraph wire is strung
from that place to AssiDabOine.
The new bridge across the Bea overhead
river at Twin Bridges Is finished at q cost,
including approaches, of $4,000.
The new mill at Black Pine will start up
in about nix weeks. 1t is said snow in that
; region lays about four feet on a level
: The Elkborn Mining Company shipped
= five bars OF bullion Thursday, valued at
81, 200, via Northern Pacific Express.
The stage road from Anaconda to Phil
ipeburg is quite heavy, the melting snow
from the hillsides makingit almost impass-
able.
The Billings Gazette says free milling gold
quartz abounds in the Big Horn Noun
tains On Shell creek and other laterals OF
the Big Horn.
The FIST child born in the new county of
Park vas the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dr.. ". c. Schelbrede on Monday, the 2Sth
ult., in Livingston.
James Sullivan and Green Preuitt, newly
arn0ipfa1 TaHrfnri1t Auditor and TNoaS-
urer respectively, assumed charge Of their
Offices in Helena last Saturday.
We understand that the Bigfoot mine
has beer stocked, and that active opera
tons viii soon begin upon this valuable
property.-Jederson County Sentinel. -
The Mics City Daily Journal gives cur
rency to a rumor that a band Of sheep re-
Gently showed in survived two weeks and
grew fat feeding on one another's fleece.
The cattlemen resident in BILLINGS report
that many bands of yearling cattle that
were supposed to have persisted during the
winter, are alive and in good condition.
Stockmen at Fort Benton o estimate
a 25 per cent loss. Tn chinook in that
vicinity has cleaned all the snow from the
ranges and cattle can now find plenty OF
grass.
A S~tevensrille man Icing out Of hay has
AN SACC ~ ~ &0SAtC IA OISs LIN
outlook for stockmen in that favord val
ley is about as blue a. could be.-Dillon
Tribune.
The oil discovered last summer in the
No Wood country, Wyoming, is said to
have been extensively used during the past
winter by the settlers Of that region in lieu
| of coal oil.
George Liscom, who has just arrived in
| Miles City from his ranch on Tongue River.
reports the river breaking up near there, |
but since the cold snap the ice is probably
again strengthened.
| Gloomy reports continue to come in from |
the Clarkis Fork country. She loss is ex-
pected to run from 10 to IS per cent. Mel
son Storey OF that section estimates his
loss at 5000, 900.
Dill,n viii have a new Opera House
which viii be built there in the spring. No
doubt all the theatrical companies will |
then make Dillon a one-night stand on |
their wa from Butte to Salt Lake.
The mail facilities in Big Hole Basin are
wretched. Some OF the residents have to
go thirty miles for their mail. It is hoped
that when spring comes something can be
done for their relief.-Dillon Tribune.
The Dillon Examiner asserts that the In
dams in that vicinity have been giving con-
" ~ t4ouDNC W I'll II 4kNi 1
Rock and in that vicinity. The agent has
been notified to look after his wards.
The sudden resignation OF Representative
Muth leaves Lewis and Clarke County but
partially represented at a time when the
most important legislation 10 pending and
there is no chance to I'LL the acanc
A new coal mine has been located about
twenty-five miles west of Red Rock sta
ton. On the Utah & Northern Railroad.
The vein is said to be nine feet thick and
the coal tested has proved to be Of good
quality.
The sheepmen OF Dawson county are
proportlonately the heaviest losers. In
some cases almost the entire bands have
died. The loss in all bands, SO far as heard
from, will be from twenty-five to seventy
five per cent.
H. e. Chenworth arrived in Glendive from
the range last week, and stated that the
loss was not as bad az some Of the croak-
ers wished TO MAKE 1t appear. he thought
that it would 60 little, if any, over twenty
five per cent.
School District No. in Missoula county.
has voted an additional school tax OF two
mills. The trustees therefore Jul to
the public that school will resume on Mon
day. the 7th inst. l.
Dan O'Neil, who was hurt at Garrison
several weeks ago. is now said to be about
out OF danger and it is expected that he
will lie able to get about on clutches in a |
few days.-Missoulian.
The Livingston Enterprise says that
agency and Indian cattle have been dying
rapidly at the Poplar River Agency, and
have been made to salt and {
save the beef. Rather poor beef, but good
enough for the Indians. Ii
Ia
Helena is to nav large additions to the I
city water works by a.. Lambeth, who has
purchased the old plant. Wooliston's I
plan to furnish the city is knocked into a
cooked hat by the courts. II
The River Press says: The Block P. line ,
OF steamboats, will commence operations !
the coming spring with nine steamboats,, ,
viz: Benton, Helena, Rosebud, Bachelor, :
Eclipse, Judith, Terry, Tompkins and Mis-
souri,. :
The Northwest Tribune is the name of a
new paper soon to be started in Stevens =
vile. 1t will be a joint stock COMPANY,
composed OF the business men of Stevens c
vile, and will be managed by Hoss Bros,
late Of Observation-Disclosures Enterprise. i
A petition is being circulated in this Sec
ton and generally signed by those who are I
interested, asking the railroad companies 9
to change the classification of wool from
ITeC u LuIEu GLASS;, WHICH WOulO result In
quite a reduction in cost OF t~ransporta-
tion.-Dillon Examiner.
The Helena Daily Herald of Saturday e
that by the decision reached by the e
of the local land Office on Friday {
in the Sophia-Elkhorn suit, the claims OF
the Sophia Company are sustained and the I
entire placer location of the Elkhorn Com e
pany should be cancelled. The case goes +
to the General and Office for confrma. v
ton. &c
A maa who has just arrived in Billings c
from Madison basin, on the west side of '
the National Park, says that owing to the
depth OF the snow hundreds of elk S
have starved to death, and many that are
living are SO weak they can be killed with =
One party of hunters killed six r
moose in that neighborhood during the p
winter. a
The Jefferson County Sentinel hears '
rom Jefferson Island that the two and =
.hree-year-old horses on the Whitehall =
seem to fare worse than others, and mares =.
hat have colts following are as q rule very ~
hin and weak. Some bands OF stock are
as showed in in the little parks
nd n{har Vlooao uIr~o kl-- LII ~